Thiri Thudhamma (
Arakanese:သီရိသုဓမ္မ; whose personal name was Min Hari (မင်းဟရီ), also known as Salim Shah II was a king of the
Mrauk-U Dynasty of
Arakan
Arakan ( or ) is a historic coastal region in Southeast Asia. Its borders faced the Bay of Bengal to its west, the Indian subcontinent to its north and Burma proper to its east. The Arakan Mountains isolated the region and made it accessi ...
.
Reign
During Thudhamma's rule of Arakan,
Muhammad Khurram (later Shah Jahan) took control of neighbouring
Mughal Bengal
The Bengal Subah ( bn, সুবাহ বাংলা; fa, ), also referred to as Mughal Bengal ( bn, মোগল বাংলা), was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire (and later an independent state under the Nawabs of Beng ...
in 1624. Thudamma took advantage of the Bengal crisis by leading a raid into
Bhalwa (Noakhali),
where he defeated the local administrator
Mirza Baqi and returned to Arakan with plenty of
war booty
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. ...
.
Thudhamma's commanding officer was
Ashraf Khan
Shāh Ashraf Hotak, (Pashto/ Persian: ; died 1730), also known as Shāh Ashraf Ghiljī (), son of Abdul Aziz Hotak, was the fourth ruler of the Hotak dynasty. An Afghan from the Ghilji Pashtuns, he served as a commander in the army of Mahmud Hot ...
, a devoted
Sufi Muslim and the patron of renowned
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
poet
Daulat Qazi.
[Sen, Sukumar (1993). ''Islami Bangla Sahitya'' (in Bengali), Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, , pp.23-33]
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Monarchs of Mrauk-U
17th century in Burma
17th-century Burmese monarchs
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